Immediately after the revolution the ancient ruins were suspect to some militant ayatollahs hostile to pre-Islamic history.

Tabari was thus introduced in youth to pre-Islamic and early Islamic history.

He said the museum had "nothing [left] to show" of the country's pre-Islamic history.

It extends from the creation of the world and is a universal history dealing with pre-Islamic and Islamic history down to 1329.

I've been there several times and can assure you that Egyptians are very proud of their pre-Islamic history, and also knowledgeable about it.

In the pre-Islamic history of the town, it was considered as one of the settlements of Sogdiana.

The textbooks ignore the pre-Islamic history of Pakistan except to put the Hindu predecessors in negative light.

Al Hīra was a significant city in pre-Islamic Arab history.

Only the most recent pre-Islamic history... was known at all, and that in a sketchy form, and from Arabic sources.

The proposed aim of the author was to study cultures which have a long pre-Islamic history and their modern attempts to establish a religious state.